In a burst of fire and smoke, Royal Navy warship HMS Defender has tested her world-beating missile system off the coast of Scotland.
Blasting from the Type 45 destroyer’s silo, the missile flew four times the speed of sound before obliterating an incoming drone target designed to simulate a projectile attack on the ship.
It marks the first time HMS Defender has taken on … [Read more...]

Royal Navy warship HMS Northumberland has escorted a Russian destroyer through the English Channel.
The Devonport-based Type 23 frigate was activated to meet the Severomorsk, a Udaloy-class guided missile destroyer.
The Russian ship passed through the English Channel on the way back to her home port after operations in the Mediterranean.
HMS Northumberland is one of … [Read more...]

Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan joined forces with a French carrier strike group to support the international fight against Daesh.
The Type 45 destroyer has been providing air defence and escort duties to the FS Charles de Gaulle and her accompanying ships in the eastern Mediterranean over the past few weeks.
French jets have been flying missions in support of Operation … [Read more...]

The biggest military exercise in the UK this year moves up a gear after a hugely successful opening first week ‘waging war’ in northwest Scotland.
More than 8,000 military personnel from 13 nations, nearly 40 ships and submarines – including two NATO task groups – and 60 aircraft, including the debut by the Navy’s new F-35 Lightning stealth fighter, and helicopters are … [Read more...]

A month-long Caribbean mercy mission by Royal Marines earned them the military’s highest humanitarian award – for an unprecedented fourth time.
The men and women of 40 Commando today received the Firmin Sword of Peace – recognition for providing life-saving aid, assistance and security to communities across the Caribbean when a succession of ferocious storms battered the … [Read more...]

Months of intensive training for Britain’s winter warfare specialists reached its climax as Royal Marines went into battle with their Scandinavian counterparts in the Arctic snow.
Some 350 Royal Marines from 40 Commando in Taunton joined Norwegian troops and US Marines in a week-long mock battle trying to invade Swedish territory – with the hosts and Finnish troops blocking … [Read more...]

Around 900 family and friends today cheered HMS Argyll home after her nine-month mission to the Pacific.
Just days after rescuing all the crew of a blazing container ship off the French coast, the frigate and her 210 sailors and Royal Marines arrived back in Plymouth.
The warship covered the equivalent of one and a half times around the globe as she sailed to Tokyo and … [Read more...]

Royal Navy sailors saved the 27 crew of a container ship which turned into a raging inferno off the French coast this morning.
The crew of HMS Argyll spent eight hours saving every soul aboard the Grande America in the Bay of Biscay after the ship’s cargo of containers and cars caught fire.
The frigate – on her way home to Plymouth after nine months away in the … [Read more...]

The six-year-old son of a Royal Navy sailor fulfilled his dream of meeting Iron Man at an event to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics to future generations.
Bailey Hall met former Royal Marines Reservist turned jet suit inventor Richard Browning as he gave a demonstration of his invention to local children and Royal Navy air and marine engineering … [Read more...]

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said: “The outstanding work of HMS Dragon’s crew continues to be a credit to Britain and its Armed Forces.
“These significant seizures stop cash flow to terrorists, hurt criminal gangs who fund them and hinder the supply of harmful drugs to streets around the world, including Britain.”
The suspect vessel was spotted by the warship’s … [Read more...]